Book Summary and Reflection: The Phenomenology of Pain by Saulius Geniusas
Book Summary and Reflection: The Phenomenology of Pain by Saulius Geniusas (1) (source of photo: https://www.books.com.tw/) I. Introduction The intention of the book is to explore what is pain. Many scholars explore pain from a biological or naturalist view that cannot fully explain what is pain. In this book, the writer reminds us that pain is more than that, it is an experience, and only in this sense that pain can be understood. When pain is treated as an experience, we will have to investigate how the experience of pain originates and how it develops. To explore an experience, phenomenology is the most suitable methodology. Phenomenology involves putting alongside the previous knowledge/assumptions of the experience (epoch), and explore all the possibilities and variations of the experience via description to arrive at eidetic variations and factual variations (i.e. examples taken from the real world). Generalizing the variations (an interpretive process) will arrive...
